'We're gripped by graphomania': why writing became an online contagion and how we can contain it

Conspiracy theories, provocations, baseless accusations... long before our clickbait era, women in pre-revolutionary France were the subject of salacious attacks. Their response offers hope for us all Perhaps it was once possible to think of writing as something beautiful and wondrous, an amazing conduit of silent communication between soul and soul. For a monk in the 13th century, maybe all writing was worthy of illumination. We are now, quite obviously, a long way from that. This is the era of...